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What you are about to read is virtually unknown. Yet it is an old story. I first read a version of this story in Douglas Hyde’s little book, Dedication and Leadership (1956). Hyde had been a Communist Party leader in Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1940s he defected and joined [...]
Continue reading →It is possible to earn a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university for about $6,000, total. No liberal arts student in the humanities needs to spend over $15,000. I have written a manual on this. Nevertheless, Obama has insisted that college is too expensive for the middle class these days. “We’ve got to make college [...]
Continue reading →Public high schools in Maine are buying laptops for students. What does this tell us? That the school administrators are behind the curve. Tablets are where the action is. The administrators are two generations behind: netbooks (obsolete) and tablets. The media focus of filters. The kids can get pornography. This means boys can get it. [...]
Continue reading →When police officers haul off 6-year-olds in handcuffs, they have lost their judgment. When school officials feel so threatened by 6-year-olds that they call the police to help keep order, we know the schools are being run by utter incompetents. Yet this is happening all over America. Here are examples. * * * * * [...]
Continue reading →Upper middle class San Diego is in a budgetary crisis. The school district is slashing jobs. The days of wine and roses for the teachers union are over. When they cut public school funding, it is crisis time. That is the state religion of the United States. The district is running a $122 million deficit [...]
Continue reading →How can cities and counties cut costs? Turn over tasks to volunteers. This is happening all over the USA today. This is what Alexis de Tocqueville said was basic to America in the 1830s. It’s coming back. It will be possible soon to run the public schools mostly with volunteers and online academies like Khan [...]
Continue reading →The job market is rotten. College grads cannot get anything except fast food jobs. Meanwhile, they have $25,000 of debt. The Associated Press looked at the data published by the government. Kids with degres in science and engineering can get jobs. Median wages are down from 2000 in the liberal arts. Andrew Sum, director of [...]
Continue reading →Christian parents shell out over $50,000 a year to get their children ground up by secular humanists. The ones whose kids are at “Vandy” are especially stupid. Stupid doesn”t begin to describe it. Vanderbilt University has informed a small Christian student organization that it will no longer be recognized as a student group because it [...]
Continue reading →An article in the Wall Street Journal reports on the plight of heavily indebted ex-students whose lives have been disrupted by debt. They did not count the cost. One woman went into debt for $74,000 to earn a degree in business management. Should could have earned that degree in two years by distance learning for [...]
Continue reading →National politics is a loser’s game today, unless he is building a mailing list for post-election uses. Ron Paul is building such a list. Third party politics in a non-parliamentary system is the leprechaun’s lure of gold at the end of the rainbow. Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 was the last serious candidate to run on [...]
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